#musicbrainz

df -h /storage/

yes lossless is freedom

/dev/mapper/LV-STORAGE 99G 90G 6.0G 94%

you rip the CD to flac one

I did all mine as flacs, then I found out that if I use max in osx, I can get the isrcs in the tags ;_;

than then you encode from that: to hi quality MP3, low bitrate MP3, Vorbis, whatever

and it's faster to rerip them than to copy them by hand >_<

and if a new nice lossy encoder comes out, you can use that

i intend to keep all music rsynced between laptop and server

and fast converting to lossy when in a hurry to leave home.. not really fun :)

I just put a few albums on my mp3 player and never change them

Then keep an extra repository of lossy at around 160 kbs. Shouldn' take up too much space

I really want a proper one which has its own rechargeable battery, this one eats through my AAA batteries

but it was only £7.50...

Get what you pay for sometimes :)

yeah, but I can't find a better one that does what I want

Oh. Ogg support?

get 8 rechargeable AAAs and cycle them

xlotlu: you rip the CDs anyway. Not much extra time to transcode them one more time after you have done that

unicode and flacs

Eww, flac on portables. No wonder it burns batteries

xlotlu: I do, but the rechargeable ones don't last as long

petros: no, mp3s

and no tags ¬_¬

not that it can read them anyway

nikki: but they're environment friendly :P

MClemo: actually the encoding takes *way* longer than the ripping :)

and I stood on my last mp3 player and broke the screen, so I'm used to not being able to read the tags

xlotlu: that's why I use them :)

xlotlu: true. But I don't sit next to it and wait for it to finish

anywyay. flac is overrated

heretic.

I like the idea to really have "CD quality"

petros: well, I can convert things to ogg or mp3 or something, but if I'm going to pay good money for one, I want one which will be able to handle me putting some flacs on it a couple of minutes before I leave the house :P

when i'll be able to tell the difference between a cd and lame --preset extreme i'll switch to flac

it never stopped me :P

xlotlu: if you ripped to flac you don't re-rip as you're now considering doing

you don't. But you can go as low as -V 5 with lame and don't have to worry that it might be messed up. If it is you can transcode again

that, is the benefit

aCiD2: well put ;)

nikki: Fair enough. I consider portable player suitable for lossy only, unless used as a tempoary file storage

well yeah, in general I would use only lossy stuff on one

When I was at home with 2 computers (one media, one for work) I'd rip a flac on my work computer, rsync to the server, and the server would transcode it to a mp3 automagically, ready for me to pop on my ipod :)

umm, aCiD2: you mean, had i ripped to flac the first half of the cds, now i would be less pissed about not encoding to vorbis :/ :)

xlotlu: hm? I mean you'd just grab the flacs and convert them all to oggs

rather than having to change cds and all that jazz

xlotlu: Exactly

but changing cds is fun!

aCiD2: the wishful thinking flacs are now mp3s with --preset extreme :) (half of them at least)

You just have some handy flac2(ipod|m4a|ogg|mp3) scripts handy

Right, but you go from that to ogg and you're no longer at ogg "extreme"

i want a transparent filesystem

store the flacs in /flacs, and copy back from /ogg where it shows the dir structure mirrored, but only encodes on the fly by request

and a pony

petros: I think we all are

some are more crazy than others though!

I like the fuse lame filesystem thing

where you can mount flacs as mp3s and it transcodes to mp3s on the fly

thought that was cool :P

aCiD2: wanna start working on it?

it's already done

I just dunno where

heh

but it can just do cbr afaik

I like my transcoding scripts better

I like the clunk the macbook makes when it swallows the CD :o

oh sure, I like more control too, but I thought it was a neat idea :)

xlotlu: there's a fuse fs that does that

google it for me? :)

I just said that alastairp :P

aCiD2: oh, so you did

I think I was a little more direct :)

MClemo: i just listened to this: http://musicbrainz.org/album/44076e7f-cd93-4263... as mp3s after listening to them from the cd earlier. can't tell any (obvious?) difference.

maybe :

great sound card, great headphones

xlotlu: I'm not arguing the difference in quality, I do it for convenience

good speakers and stuff though

bet mine is worse than yours :P

jpop will do that :P

lol

I didn't listen to jpop back then :P

aCiD2: i rip them to mp3 for convenience. it's just that i got a sudden urge to conveniently store them as vorbis :)

jpop will *still* do that :P

alastairp: thanks

hah

xlotlu: i've actually just killed my ogg collection

alastairp: in favor of... ? (lemme guess, flac)

well, yeah :)

mp3, really,

but using flac as the intermetdiate step

Remosi's been working on a bunch of scripts

I have flacs and mp3s (for the zoooon)

you're all a bunch of snobs with oversized hdds

xlotlu: damn right :P

s/s//

:D

:P

hdds are very cheap compared to what I spend on CDs

/dev/mapper/media-lvol0 1.8T 1.7T 148G 92% /shared

:-P

alastairp: mp3 in the end.. why?

hdds are also cheap compared to my time :P

xlotlu: I'm having thoughts of an ipod

not yet, but maybe soon

I got an ipod a few months ago and really like it

I still want flac support in itunes >_<

now I'm as cool as all the other kids

actually, hdds are extremely cheap compared to my work. what's why i prefer to keep my 4 * 500GB hdds under raid1

nikki: that'd be nice

xlotlu: it's more "convienient" for other people, too

it's either that, or wma/m4a :-)

yeah, that's why I keep sending them messages asking for ogg and flac support, they'll surely get sick of me asking eventually :P

or you're on there blacklist ;)

can't see it happening :-P

their

I have plenty of email addresses to use!

I can't see it happening either, to be honest, but I'm still going to annoy them :P

isn't there that 3rd party hack that does it?

yeah, don't see it happening either as they have their great apple lossless ;)

does that work on latest gen?

there's nothing that works properly, afaik

yeah

there's apparently something that lets itunes play them, but it can't access the tags

which is absolutely useless

I don't care about itunes

i think it's something about them not liking the ogg container

I only care because everything else for osx is annoying too

play is about the best thing I can find, but it can't display albums by an artist

you can always transcode to alac

but then I'd need two copies of everything :/

xlotlu: if you have four, why not raid5?

raid5 is dead slow

oh

stillLotR is now known as LotR

and well, it's degmented

*segmented

I know people that have had real troubles with raid5

demented?

haha

aCiD2: most probably, yeah

~ half of it 4* raid1, ~ 1/4 raid 10, and the rest raid1 for junk storage

make the last one raid0

raid1 is mirroring, right?